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Saturday, 11 June 2011

Musician Introduction: THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT

Who are these badasses, plotting to take your life? Thee Michelle Gun Elephant that's who.

Yes you heard me 'Thee Michelle Gun Elephant'

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Well there's almost nothings better to start off with than than good old engrish i say, and that's possibly as insane a case of misused english as you can get. But its appropriate because the band is insane.

Well not really literally insane but you know what i mean ( I hope)

Apparently they the name is a combination of mispronounced readings of the band "Thee Headcoats", and album called "Machine Gun Ettiquette'.

They are usually described of as a playing of playing Garage Rock, but also play a lot of Punk, Blues and Rockabilly style music. They've released 9 albums, but their style doesn't really change throughout the collection so a lot of the songs might sound somewhat similar, but they definitely have some very cool ones.

Many of their song titles have English names, and many also have Engrish ones. For example:

Black Punky Bikini

Dog Way

...Among several others

Aanyway enough about their naming sense.

The band is quite an influential band in Japan although not overly popular in the charts (which isn't surpirising, since the Japanese music charts are invaded by the army of boy bands and idol groups). Regardless, they've been around for a while, providing Japanese rock fans with awesome riffs and tunes to listen to.

Band members are:

Chiba Yusuke

-Vocals (also plays guitar, tambourine, harmonica if the song calls for it)

- Distinctive raspy voice and intense stage presence has lead to people likening him to a beast haha